I spent quite a bit of time on the phone with the guy running this
particular show. He called to see if clarifying their stance would help to
garner our support.
After our roughly hour long phone call I have to tell you guys that I liked
him. And I liked what they are trying to do (this is the same group that
filed in court to force the FCC to release the 477 data) in regards to
getting this data for a very specific purpose.
Their belief is that there are companies getting government moneys but are
NOT actually servicing the customer bases that they are being paid to
service. That's why they want the 477 data. To prove or disprove who's
stealing what.
I suggested that he join our list and talk about this whole thing directly
with all of you. Or, at the very least, write up something more focused on
us than what the law suit seems to show. I've been swamped so I don't know
if that's been done or not.
Overall, I agree with what they want to do. I don't happen to think that
the 477 data is all that helpful to our competitors but many of you do. I
told him that we'd not support his group in their lawsuit. However, if they
could find another way to go about proving that our competitors are stealing
money from the tax payer we'd be all over it. We'll see what comes of it.
I also told him that there was NO way that WISPA would support them in their
efforts to force the FCC to release the 477 raw data. Especially in the
case of those that chose to keep the data confidential.
If you get the chance to talk to the folks running this group I suggest you
do so. I really liked the guy (sure wish I could remember his dang name...
I was standing outside a customer's house while talking to him though) I
talked to.
laters,
marlon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Tetherow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] CWA's suggested improvements of Form 477
Most of this has been hashed over before, but there are two problems I see
with their suggestions.
First every communications company would be giving away essential customer
information if they had to report customers by zip or even worse zip+4
along with speeds of those customers, especially if cost was included as
well.
If any report was going to be made public that had any real information in
it, it would require that type of granularity to be published. In addition
there has been one attempt to get access to the raw 477 data already and
if a company could get this granular of data I can bet there would be a
lot more concerted effort to get this data via the public documents act.
The other statistic, homes passed, would be an interesting one to try to
calculate. Even if I could reliably get an answer of how many homes I
could service if they wanted, I don't think it is the communication
carrier's job to go around counting homes in their coverage area so they
can report it to the federal government.
Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless
Don Renner wrote:
Thought the list might like to see CWA's idea of reporting the FCC form
477.
Additional info would be tiers of users, number of homes passed, speed
tests, number of users by Zip +4, speed tests and a host of other
goodies.
Seems like CWA wants market research to find out size of Broadband
providers
and where to organize.
http://files.cwa-union.org/national/communicationspolicy/comments/fcc07-38_c
omments_cwa.pdf
Don Renner
NetsurfUSA, Inc.
812-936-2525 office
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